Copyright 1889 by A. w. Thayer.BREUNING, a family mainly interesting for its connexion with Beethoven. Christoph von Breuning in 1761 was Chancellor of the Commandery of the Teutonic order at Mergentheim. His five sons, George Joseph, Lorenz, Johann Philipp, Emanuel Joseph, and Christoph, all received important offices either in the Order or in the Electorate; and Emanuel Joseph, born in , became at twenty a ‘Conseilleractuel
’ at the Court in Bonn, and, Jan. 3, 1750, married Helène, daughter...
